Stroy- Break blade is about a continent being rapidly ingulfed in war. the story follows Lygatto a young man born into a world of "Magic" Users it is called magic but it is just the ability to manipulate quartz to make power machinery ect. However he is a one in a million person who cannot use this ability meaning he cant drive a car, turn on a light, or pilot a mecha. Untill an anceint mecha is unearthed and through some personal connections and circumstances he ends up piloting the mecha no one else could get it to work because it didnt rely on quartz power. The story developes from here dont want to give anything away.

Art- The art is very nice the characters and mecha are very well drawn. however the back grounds do tend to be alittle bland this is partly because it takes place so far in a very mountainous desert region another problem at least for me is that the combat seens tend to be difficult to figure out however a tend to have this problem. I also think it is because unlike Gundam and many other mechas out there not many people have custom mechas they are mass produced with a few different models being seen so far. it is also aleviated alittle by the fact that they dont all carry the same weopons there are differnet guns, swords ect.

Story- The story so far i have found to be fairly interesting the characters are all good lygatto can be a bit of a douche and he hasnt really grown that much yet but im hopeful. there are a few things that i wasnt expecting going into the manga but have been positives for me the firsts is the author isnt afraid to kill of some of the characters none of them have been too important but its not like naruto or bleach where none of the characters that have names are ever killed or if they are they are promptly brought back to life or in the other extreme soukou no strain where all the main supporting characters are killed off multiple times. second lygatto has broken the mold in that while he dosnt like killing he will and has killed quite a few people. in the begining ***Spoiler he goes so far as to say he wants to get used to killing. and third the ancient mecha dosnt turn out to be an all powerful weapon it is in some was superior and in others inferior example it is more powerful than the more modern mecha but has weak armour and short usage time. also these mecha dont fly and they dont pull out some allpowerful ability and destroy mas amounts of people so of the unnamed ones are taken out quickly but the main fights are good no one gets away unscathed and its more about bludgeoning than cutting or blasting away which i also found interesting. also the battles are fairly tactical its not just some insane random mess. well i went way more in depth there then i planned on still have one more thing to add. Romance hasnt been a alot of it yet but looks like that could be changing shortly and it could be complicated *** spoiler the queen loves lygatto he loves her but shes married to the king obviously will be interesting to see how that turns out.

i think this manga has alot of potential we still no very little about the ancient mecha, characters have alot of room to grow and there is plenty of room for back story